An appealing and apparently unrecorded anti-slavery bazaar leaflet urging abolitionists to continue the struggle for “freedom’s sacred cause.” Hosted annually by the American Anti-Slavery Society, anti-slavery bazaars were major fundraising events for the Society. Often spearheaded by women, members sold abolitionist paraphernalia, ephemera, household items, and publications—with much of.....
An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list.....
An official printing of an 1845 treaty, concluded and ratified under President James K. Polk, relating to the Creek lands in Florida, rectifying a treaty of 1833 which grouped the Creeks and Seminoles together and misled the Creeks with regard to the lands they would be given. The result was.....
A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born.....
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size.....
A rare broadside appealing to the people of New Jersey to form a National Union Party, published just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War by a committee of the NUP. The text begins by noting that the call for the National Republican nominating Convention to meet in.....
A scarce advertising circular featuring an appeal from the women of the United Garment Workers of America to union men to buy the union-manufactured trousers of Sweet, Orr & Co. in order to support the organization and ensure humane working conditions. The cover illustration depicts a carpenter at work wearing.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. Upham’s lines crown Lincoln a “martyr” and call for national mourning: “Drape every dwelling in sable night: / Symbol of deep lamentation!” In addition, the song calls for “a garland of lilies white” to be.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. The “bewailing” nation is here characterized as crying for “Lincoln, the merciful, doomed to die.” The first chorus calls for the punishment of John Wilkes Booth and crowns Lincoln a “martyr”: “Strike, strike the traitor.....